Abstract Approximately 25 million children ride buses to school in the United States. While are safest transport from an accident perspective, older often expose students high levels of diesel exhaust. Because these exposures can adversely impact health, which may lead more missed school, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent millions dollars hasten transition bus fleets cleaner ve...

BACKGROUND Adolescent pregnancy is associated with increased school dropout rates. Dropping out amplifies the probability of persistent social and economic disadvantage. Whether school-based health centers might help reduce school absenteeism and dropout rates in this group has not been well studied. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of school-based prenatal services on school attendance a...

OBJECTIVE To document the development of unique opioid-dependence treatment in remote communities that combines First Nations healing strategies and substitution therapy with buprenorphine-naloxone. DESIGN Quantitative measurements of community wellness and response to community-based opioid-dependence treatment. SETTING Remote First Nations community in northwestern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS...

Community-based systems of care (SOC) provide a range of services to students with significant emotional and behavioral difficulties and their families. However, little is known about the educational characteristics and functioning of students at enrollment in SOC. The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend previous research by examining the educational characteristics and predictors...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of headache and migraine, to identify symptoms that accompany headache attack, and to determine the possible effect of headache on school attendance, among high school students. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study of secondary school students of the National Guard Housing in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was executed during the academi...

BACKGROUND Earlier studies of young people with Down's syndrome have investigated a relatively limited range of variables which may influence their academic attainment. The relative strength of such influences and how they may vary during the school career, has also been under-researched. AIMS The aim of the paper is to identify the contemporary and antecedent predictors of the level of acade...

Children’s absence from primary school is associated with lower attainment and social difficulties, persistent at this age often continues or worsens as children progress into secondary education. It therefore important to intervene early interrupt negative trajectory. This study used individual semi-structured interviews explore the perspectives of eight members staff, who had experience suppo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents aged 10-17 years with chronic fatigue syndrome. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Department of child psychology. PARTICIPANTS 71 consecutively referred patients with chronic fatigue syndrome; 36 were randomly assigned to immediate cognitive behaviour therapy and 35 to the waiting list for therapy....